Only a few days to go until the fourth edition of the Sinistro Film Festival, the temple of fantasy, horror, science fiction and suspense in Brazil, where Gentian Doda & Lorin Terezi are competing with their spectacular drama 303.

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303 is an impressive experimental short film recently premiered in the Official Selection of the Buffalo International Film Festival, New York.

In a few weeks, it will also compete in the official section of the Centre Film Festival in Pennsylvania.

Synopsis:

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the remote mountains of dictatorial Albania, the Spaç political prison held its inmates under the most inhumane conditions. One day, a visitor arrives from afar, bearing news locked inside a wooden box.

Director’s Statement:

My father once set off for Spaç to visit a relative. I couldn’t wait to hear his story. When he
returned, the only thing he said was that the journey had been long and that the cold had forced
him to wrap newspapers around his chest. Nothing more. But in his silence, I began to interpret.
It felt as if I were eavesdropping on the people in that place, hearing exchanges of mute voices
echo through the depths of silence.
The cold had frozen time itself. Identities had faded under the oppressive force of authority.
This memory, along with the testimonies of survivors, shaped this in-situ recorded film— a
testament that the atrocities of the Re-Education Unit No. 303 – Spaç Prison, like many other
political prisons of the 20th century, were not inevitable, but human-made.

• Gentian Doda

303 is an Albanian production starring by Rosella Pellicciotti.

Son Shalci is the director of photography for this spectacular and powerful film.

What a great film!!

Stay tuned!! We will soon be announcing new selections at film festivals.

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